Improved package band and fastener



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li. HUNT, OF LEAVENW()lt'lli, KANSAS.`

Letters Patent No.' 100,897, dated Mtl-rch- 15, 1870.

IMPROVED PACKAGE BAND AND FASTENER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pax-t of the same.

. To all whom it nul-y concern Be it known that I, F. R. HUNT, ot' Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth, and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful and Improved Band and Fastening for Money Packages, Packages 'of Letters and Papers, and for Attachment to Envelopes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of. the same, reference heilig had to the annexed .drawings nmking a part of this spec-iiication.

Figure 1 isa perspective View ol' my improved baud or fastener, as it appears when it has been pla'ced upon a package and secured in its posit-ion by having its outer end passed under the bars in its opposite end.

Figure 2 is a plan view, showing the combination ofthe band, and its appearance when ready for use.

Figure 3 shows the band as attached to an envelope for containing money or any kind of valuable papers.

This invention relates to`that class ot' devices known as bands or ties for securing packages of any description from becoming undone by being pla-ced around them; and

It consists in the construction of such bands, they being formed of a single piece of material, such as leather', strong canvas, gutta-percha, or any other suitable. material, and provided with slots cut or formed across them, in a direction transverse to the line of their greatest length, and with bars, under which to pass the opposite end for the purpose of securing them upon whatever they may be placed, as will be more fully set forth in the following description.

A, in the drawings,represents a strip of leather, canvas, India-rubber, thin metal, or other material suitable for the purpose of being passed around packages, which it is desirable to encircle with a band. A portion of this band, near one of its ends, is t0 be ofgreater width than the remainder, as shown at 5 5, in iig. 2, the object being to permit of the cutting of transverse slot-s 1 2 3 4, and at thesarne time have suicient strength outside of such slots to retain any strain that may be put upon it.

From 5 to (5, this strap is to be of such a width as to permit of its passage through the transverse slots 1 2 3 4, while from the point 6 it is to be reduced, as shown in fie. 3. to facilitate the passage of it through such slots.

The widened end of this band is designated by the letter C, and may be of suitable length to have any required number of slots cut in it.

l represents a piece of the same kind, or of asimilar kind of material to that ot' which the band is composed, which is to be secured to the under side crossbar a., either hy riveting, cenienting, o1' in any other manner suit-able to the material used.

From the point where this piece is attached to the strap, it extends toward the narrowed end thereof,

for a distance sutiicient to admit of its being passed through slot 4, and have its outer end rest upon the surface ofthe strap at some distance from such slot, so that. in putting the band around the package it may facilitate the passing of the pointed outer end ofthe same through the slots, fertile purpose of securing it injits place, where it has been drawn tightly around such package.

lt will be 'seen that a consequence of forming the slots of 1 2 3 i, Sac., a series of bars, a b c, the., are formed, under and over which the outer end of the strap isl to be passed in securing it to the package.

The application of this device to packages will be performed as follows:

It having been constructed substantially as set forth, it is to be passed around the package, which may consist of bales of hay, straw, cotton, or other cloths, or may be other lkinds of merchandise, in which case it will be made of thin metal, or it may be 'used as a band for smaller packages,- such as money, papers, portinonnaies, in which cases it will be made oi' leather, or some other iiexible or elastic substance, and after it has been drawn sufficiently tight to insure its holding the package within its proper limits, its outer end is to be passed through the slots, and. under and over the bars a suilcent number of times to insure it against slipping out, in which case it will secure the package. within the space to which it has been previously compressed,- or to which it may he reduced by the application ofthe band.

Having thus described my invention,

That I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

'l A band, for encirliug` packages, consisting of the 

